So that Beatriz and her blanket are the protagonists of my first post this year :o)

I began to crochet it long time ago, when I still didn't know if the baby would be a boy or a girl. That's the reason why I chose a neutral color combination, that could be used in any cases. The difference would be in the apliques I was going to crochet and sew on the blanket: flowers for a baby girl or little bears for a baby boy. But I also began to crochet others project at the same time and this blanket grew up in a slower way than I'd have wished.

Blanket measures are 90 x 110 cm. I used baby weight yarn in white, turquoise, red and two shades of grey, worked with a 4.5 cm hook to get long stitches (I tend to make a high yarn tension crochet).I've chosen a very easy stitch: double crochet V-stitch. If you don't know this stitch, you can find an excellent tutorial HERE.

The edge is also very simple: several single crochet rounds made by inserting the hook in back loop only.Finally, I made the flowers following the same pattern I used in Alessia's Scarf and Sandals, with the slight variation of adding one single crochet round more to better contrast the center of each flower.

As you can see, it's a very easy and quick to make blanket, for beginners indeed :o) Fortunately I was able to finish it in time because Beatriz will be born in a few days, and now I hope her parents like her blanket as much as I've enjoyed making it.

2016 was definitely the year of the crochet blankets for me. I hadn't made such many blankets in such a short time before in my life.

Thanks so much, Sandra, I'm so glad you like it! It's wonderful to read your crocheting a baby blanket too and I hope to see some pictures (your wonderful pictures) of this blanket very soon. Have a wonderful new week! xxx

Thank you very much, Marjan! :-) When every new year begins, I think of all the days that we have ahead to see how they are filling up with inspiration and new beautiful projects in all your blogs. Have a wonderful new week! xxx